Tuesday, November 13, 2012

And so it begins

This afternoon, just as comptroller and likely 2013 mayoral candidate John Liu appeared alongside Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a press conference discussing the post-Sandy state of the city’s finances, legal arguments got underway this afternoon in the trial of his supporter Xing Wu “Oliver” Pan and his young campaign treasurer Jia “Jenny” Hou, who are being accused of participating in a conspiracy to direct illegal contributions to Mr. Liu’s war chest. In the courtroom today, Judge Richard Sullivan rejected four pre-trial motions requested by Mr. Pan and Ms. Hou’s attorneys and ordered the trial to begin as scheduled February 4.

The first motion argued before the court this afternoon was presented by Mr. Pan’s lawyer, Irwin Rockman. He said the case against his client should be dismissed entirely due to “outrageous government conduct,” namely that FBI agents continued their undercover investigation of Mr. Pan though he said they should have known “Mr. Pan had no interest in engaging in a violation of campaign finance law.” He based this argument on the claim wiretap recordings indicate Mr. Pan repeatedly told an undercover agent who posed as a Houston businessman eager to have funds in excess of the maximum allowed amount funneled to Mr. Liu through a system of straw donors about Mr. Liu’s campaign “self-imposed limit of $800″ on contributions. Mr. Rockman also said his client had been “terrorized” by law enforcement agents who subjected him to an “ominous vague threat” by indicating they knew the whereabouts of his wife and children. The lawyer said this was especially traumatizing to Mr. Pan because he spent his “formative years” in the “totalitarian regime” of the People’s Republic of China.

Judge Sullivan indicated Mr. Rockman’s motion had no legal precedent and said he felt like he was being asked to rule based on “squishy stuff in the pit of my belly” rather than the rule of law.

“This is a court of law, not a psychiatrist’s couch,” the judge said.

Unsurprisingly given his reaction to the argument, Judge Sullivan ended up rejecting the motion and siding with the prosecution’s contention the issues raised by Mr. Rockman did not constitute a violation of due process.

CECILIA CHANG...CECILIA CHANG...CECILIA CHANG!Don't overlook the dragon lady's part in all of this!

Manes and Chang...2 VERY IMPORTANT crooks are now dead.Or are they? They might be in the federal witness protection program.NOBODY saw either Manes' or Chang's bodies...only the black bags removed by the coroner's staff.

John Liu has shown his family moral by standing by as his staff gets wrapped up in this crime in my view.

Of course his father is a convicted bank thief but worse, his father was the President of the Bank, a position of respect that he used to commit his crime. So this morality runs in the Liu family in my view.

The only saving grace here is that at least Mr. Pan has admitted that China is a totalitarian regime, about time some Chinese ex-pats said that out loud.

Looking forward to some real newspaper person to ask John Liu if he agrees with that fact.

I'm not Ackerman troll - I'm the guy who thinks other people are trolls for the Democractic County organization. It's just that you're making so much of a stretch that you're beginning to look like a member of the Fantastic Four. And I don't mean the Invisible Girl.

Anon No. 12:

Do your hands hurt for all the straws that you're grasping at, Gramps?

Who is going ballistic? Not me. It sure seems like you are, though with your response.

To be honest, I don't care who you are. You might even be another troll for the Queens Democratic organization. Everyone has to learn a living. And say hi to Donny and Marlene the next time that you go visit.

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